Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.